The next event 

 

Date:    25 February

Times:  17.30 - 20:00*

Venue:  Christian Aid Head Office, 35 Lower Marsh, Waterloo, London SE1 7RL [map]**

 

*We must vacate building by 20:30 latest - but there's the option to continue in the pub! 

**Please do not contact Christian Aid directly about this event. They have been kind enough to let us use a great space at their offices, but are not responsible for the organisation of the event and have got important work to do!

 

**Sign up for the 25 February event**

 

The venue

 

We are delighted that Christian Aid has kindly made their 'Forum' available free of charge for the February event.  Many thanks indeed to Steven Buckley and Peter Berry at Christian Aid for their help and support.

 

The Forum is situated on the ground floor of Christian Aid's head offices in Waterloo, just off the main reception, and has a capacity for around 50-75 people, depending on the layout.  Plans at the moment are to keep this 'café style', with groups of five or six people around small tables, to continue the informal, collaborative style of NFPtweetup.

 

Internet access

 

Unfortuntately, those attending will not be able to have personal access to WiFi through Christian Aid's network - as this is only available to members of staff.  There is a PC rigged up to a projector - and a large screen to project onto - so we have somewhere to show the live Twitter stream during the event.  A few of us are bringing our laptops, with dongles, so we can tweet during the event, and from each discussion group.  If you have a laptop with a dongle, please bring it along, or you may wish to tweet from your phone if you usually do this.

 

Refreshments

 

Drinks and snacks will be available during the event - kindly provided by Just Giving.

 

Agenda and format

 

Now that we have confirmation on our venue, we can better design the event based on the space and the facilities it has (which are pretty good!).

 

5.30 - 6.00pm     Arrive, get your badge, grab a drink, have a chat, find a seat, and tweet!

 

6.00 - 6.05pm     Welcome and introduction

 

6.05 - 6.15pm     What is Twitter to you?  Slideshow of thoughts, crowdsourced between now and the event [see below for info].

 

• The slideshow will be shared online prior to the event.
• During the slideshow, we ask participants using Twitter to tweet their thoughts and questions about the ideas raised in the slides, or any other questions they may have.
• Those at the event not yet using Twitter can either post their first tweet through the new NFPtweetup Twitter profile, or have it posted for them by @amyrsward, who will take you through posting your first tweet, or do it for you.  Any tweets posted containing #NFPtweetup will be aggregated through @NFPtweetup [you might want to start following now, so you're all set on the night] and Hashtags.org/tag/NFPtweetup

   

6.15 - 6.30pm     We will aggregate questions from the Twitter stream and define groups to explore these points around the main areas of interest.  Each group will be faciliated and the facilitator will tweet the questions, thoughts and ideas that come out of each group's session.  Everyone using Twitter is asked to post at least one tweet from their session, sharing an insight or a take out from the discussion.

 

6.30 - 7.30pm     Breakout into groups around areas of interest to explore questions, ideas, learn practical tips, learn about tools, hear from others about their experiences, share yours and tweet!

 

7.30 - 8.00pm     Come back together and review what we learned, and tweeted, and share across groups and through Twitter stream to online participants.

 

8.00pm               Vacate venue and make way to pub/ restaurant/ bar with interesting people you have met at the NFPtweetup, or home, as you wish.

 

More information about how to take part online and follow groups will be added to this wiki before the event.

 

Collaborative slideshow

 

Between now and the event, we'd like you to send in one slide with your take on the question, 'What is Twitter to you?'.

 

You may send your slides in with your Twitter profile ID or without - if you want it to be shown anonymously.  It's also worth creating the content of the slide and saving it as a PDF or taking a screen shot and replacing the text and images with that, just because the formatting you wanted can change if you have different fonts installed.

 

We did a collaborate slideshow for the previous NFPtweetup [view it here], it was a lot of fun and a great way to kick off the conversation, so please take part this time and help us to create a great set of resources to be shared and referenced online during and after the event.

 

Please send slides to Rachel Beer.  We need to operate a strict deadline, so the slideshow can be pulled together in time for the NFPtweetup, so any slides must be sent in by 5pm on 24 February.

 

How we set the date for this event

 

Feedback from the first NFPtweetup in November 08 was overwhelmingly in favour of quarterly events, so the next event is in February, then we'll probably aim for another in May, then August, provided there is demand.

 

We used this Doodle page to help us pick a date in February that worked for as many people as possible.